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All The City Lights
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Fan of music, cargo bikes, the #EastBay, and humor. Not a fan of the seemingly inexorable slide into fascism. #ShoupPilled. Follow me if you want to have far too many song-a-day #MusicChallenge posts sliding into your timeline.
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The 50th anniversary of the sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald inspired me to finish up something that's been rattling around in my brain for a while now.
Open Letters to Lake Erie and Lake Ontario on their Treatment by Gordon Lightfoot in the Sixth Verse of “The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald” | All The City Lights
billchapin.net
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And how much Transportation is hidden in the other categories? What portion of Housing costs is the garage under your apartment building? What portion of Food is the sea of parking surrounding the supermarket? What portion of Healthcare is car-related injury and respiratory disease?
Transportation costs are the second largest burden on American family budgets (17%), after housing (33%)!
To address the affordability crisis, we must create cities with abundant housing of all types (subsidized, social, coop, market rate) and make walking, biking, and taking transit convenient.
November 14, 2025 at 6:35 PM
#MusicInMusic
#MusicChallenge

Day 14 - "She Doesn't Get It," The Format

Kids today only know one Duran Duran song, right 24-year-old Nate Ruess?

"She stops and she sings 'do do do do do do do do!'
I claim 'New Religion' is my song
She doesn't get it, it's all before she's born"
November 14, 2025 at 6:02 PM
#TheTwen2ie5 - Day 39

12. "Gila Monster"
King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard
2023
Australia
ISC ✅
NKC ❌

The only real metal I've got in my Top 50, and it's arguably a spoof. But what a spoof! KG&TLW famously switches up genres every album, but they clearly know their thrash.

ALL HAIL KING GILA! WOO!
November 14, 2025 at 5:54 PM
#readandplay (529)
#MusicChallenge
#MusicSky

“No rules. The only limit is our imagination.”

Read 📚 & Play🎶
November 14, 2025 at 5:15 PM
#NotKnownEnough
#MusicChallenge

least obscure ➡️ who??

Day 14 - Lydia Loveless

📍 Columbus, OH
Monthly listeners: 11K

Of all the artists I'm featuring, I'm most shocked by just how #NotKnownEnough Loveless is. She oughta be as popular as pop-Americana peers like Amanda Shires & Waxahatchee, I say!
November 14, 2025 at 12:40 AM
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Remember the immigration raid on the apartment complex in Chicago almost two months ago? The one with the Black Hawk helicopter and federal agents rappelling on ropes? @ProPublica decided to take a deeper look. We found little evidence to support the government’s claims. 🧵
November 13, 2025 at 11:06 PM
#TheTwen2ie5 - Day 38

13. "How Can I Love Her More?"
The Lemon Twigs
2024
USA
ICS ✅
NKC ❌

Beach Boys-esque Pop isn't a subgenre the same way that Beatles-esque Pop is. I'm more than OK with there being more stuff that sounds like PET SOUNDS in the world, and the D'Addario bros. nail the homage.
November 13, 2025 at 10:36 PM
#MusicInMusic
#MusicChallenge

Day 13 - "Ronnie and Neil," Drive-By Truckers

Nearly any track from SOUTHERN ROCK OPERA would qualify for this, but I gotta go with the thesis statement that both builds and breaks down the mythos of the Skynyrd/Young feud. LET YOUR GUITARS BLAST FOR RONNIE & NEIL!
November 13, 2025 at 5:29 PM
#NotKnownEnough
#MusicChallenge

least obscure ➡️ who??

Day 13 - Fake Fruit

📍 Oakland, CA
Monthly listeners: 11K

High-octane post-punk. And high-octane things are volatile. You never quite know when the trio's humor, frustration, snarling guitars & jittery rhythms will erupt into a conflagration.
November 13, 2025 at 7:58 AM
#MusicInMusic
#MusicChallenge

Day 12 - "XTC vs. Adam Ant," They Might Be Giants

Beatle-based pop versus new romantic ... even the singer from Bow Wow Wow can't make up her mind!
November 12, 2025 at 6:37 PM
#TheTwen2ie5 - Day 37

14. "Tiny Moves"
Bleachers
2024
USA
ICS ✅
NKC ❌

Anybody heard of this Jack Antonoff guy? Apparently he has a career as a producer & songwriter in addition to fronting this nifty indie band.

This is such a bubbly little tune that builds to euphoria & a sax solo (of course).
November 12, 2025 at 6:24 PM
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Overall, this tells the disappointing reality of the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, 4 years after:
—Construction cost inflation ate up most of the increased spending
—There was no move to increase support for transit—in fact, there appears to have been a greater focus on highway than before
November 12, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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It's impossible to describe the evil of what occurred at CECOT to men sent on flimsy evidence of gang membership by Trump

www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Trump sent men to torture in El Salvador, report confirms
The Human Rights Watch found that Venezuelans shipped to El Salvador by the United States were beaten almost every day.
www.motherjones.com
November 12, 2025 at 5:02 PM
This time for sure.
a man is standing in front of a podium that says last week tonight on it
ALT: a man is standing in front of a podium that says last week tonight on it
media.tenor.com
November 12, 2025 at 4:49 PM
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We need the country to run like a business that private equity has purchased and is now dumping other bad debts into.
November 12, 2025 at 4:38 PM
#NotKnownEnough
#MusicChallenge

least obscure ➡️ who??

Day 12 - Reigning Sound

📍 Memphis, Tenn.
Monthly listeners: 17K

One of Greg Cartwright's many garage-punk projects, all of which are #NotKnownEnough. This is my favorite, though. Not quite as harsh as The Oblivians or The Compulsive Gamblers.
November 12, 2025 at 3:52 AM
#TheTwen2ie5 - Day 36

15. "Sunset"
Caroline Polachek
2023
USA
ICS ✅
NKC ✅

Let's get in the zone!

For me, this was clearly the standout track from DESIRE, I WANT TO TURN INTO YOU. Nobody else seems to agree with me. But the Latin/Mediterranean vibes paired with them Polachek pop instincts!
November 11, 2025 at 6:41 PM
#MusicInMusic
#MusicChallenge

Day 11 - "Lou Reed Was My Babysitter," Jeff Tweedy

Track 1, Disc 3 from Tweedy's new album. The lyrics don't specifically mention Reed or The Velvet Underground, but speak to a lifetime spent as a fan of rock 'n' roll. Rawr!
November 11, 2025 at 6:33 PM
#readandplay (526)
#MusicChallenge
#MusicSky

“No rules. The only limit is our imagination.”

Read 📚 & Play🎶
November 11, 2025 at 5:29 PM
#NotKnownEnough
#MusicChallenge

least obscure ➡️ who??

Day 11 - The Starlight Mints

📍 Norman, OK
Monthly listeners: 17K

The indie-pop band got a lot of comparisons to The Flaming Lips, but 90% of that was probably just the fact that they were also from Oklahoma. The other 10%? Melodic kookiness.
November 11, 2025 at 3:01 AM
#MusicInMusic
#MusicChallenge

Day 10 - “The Drinking Song,” Moxy Früvous

Musically “quotes” two waltzes that have become pop standards: “The Band Played On,” written in 1895 by John F. Palmer & Charles B. Ward and “Goodnight Irene, first recorded by Huddie “Lead Belly” Ledbetter in 1933.
November 10, 2025 at 8:12 PM
#TheTwen2ie5 - Day 35

16. "Living Lo-Fi"
Cheekface
2025
USA
ISC ✅
NKC ✅

My final 2025 song. We'll see if it's still at No. 1 when I do my Best of 2025 list next month. America's Local Band is surely a bit much for people who, say, can't stand TMBG, but for the rest of you nerds I recommend highly.
November 10, 2025 at 7:10 PM
The 50th anniversary of the sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald inspired me to finish up something that's been rattling around in my brain for a while now.
Open Letters to Lake Erie and Lake Ontario on their Treatment by Gordon Lightfoot in the Sixth Verse of “The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald” | All The City Lights
billchapin.net
November 10, 2025 at 6:25 PM
#NotKnownEnough
#MusicChallenge

least obscure ➡️ who??

Day 10 - Meernaa

📍 L.A. via Oakland
Monthly listeners: 18K

I’d file Carly Bond’s project under R&B/soul but it certainly has indie pop & psychedelic elements. Think along the lines of genre-bending songwriters like Nilüfer Yanya & SZA.
November 10, 2025 at 7:05 AM
#TheTwen2ie5 - Day 34

17. "Flowers Will Return"
Shannon and the Clams
2021
USA
ISC ✅
NKC ✅

My final #EastBay act, and the one with the biggest following outside the local scene here. The retro garage band gave me reassurance that we would emerge from the pandemic with one killer guitar-pop chorus.
November 9, 2025 at 4:08 PM